| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-Apr-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | A celebration of youth with L'Orchestre Métropolitain |
 Tonight’s concert by L’Orchestre Métropolitain was a celebration of youth which featured a great number of young musicians, including guest conductor Jean-Michaël Lavoie, 21-year-old pianist Marika Bournaki, 13-year-old violinist Kerson Leong, a children’s choir, and even a few child composers.
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| 21-Apr-2013 The Armstrong Hall Complex | Première of Rouse Ye Women at the Thornbury Arts Festival is a sell-out production |
 The sold-out première of Rouse ye Women told the story of the chain-making women in the Black Country in 1910. The story of how the chain-makers’ strike led to the implementation of the minimum wage in Britain, is told through a cast of six female singers who use a dynamic mixture of scored music and choreographed movement. This hour-long performance at the Amstrong Hall was part of the Thornbury Arts Festival, given by new music theatre company And Then We Danced.
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| 23-Feb-2013 Columbia University, Miller Theatre | A stunning portrait of Enno Poppe from Yarn/Wire and JACK Quartet at Miller Theatre |
.jpg) “Wheel: mechanical, circular motion. The brake was invented later.”
Enno Poppe’s words about Rad (“Wheel”), the first piece on his Composer Portraits concert at Miller Theatre on Saturday night, express well the experience of listening to it. With their two keyboards connected to computers that allowed them to play a huge array of scales in multiple tunings, Laura Barger and Ning Yu of Yarn/Wire gave a dizzying, athletic performance of the piece, which Barger related afterwards left her and Yu feeling almost like madwomen.
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| 13-Feb-2013 St Paul's Church | Contemporary Music Venture at St Paul's Church, Bristol |
 There was no doubt that for this concert, one had to enter the front door with a completely open mind. The aim of the Contemporary Music Venture is to promote contemporary music to a wider audience, in an hour and for free – an honourable challenge.
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